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(No Model.)

- O. H. P. G. SPENCER.

CURTAIN 0R SHADE FIXTURE.

No. 562,257. Y PatentedJune16,1896.

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OLIVER II. P. G. SPENCER, OF MOUNT CARMEL, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WVILLIAM GRANT BAYLEY AND \VILLIAM MORRISON QUINN, OF SAME PLACE.

CURTAIN OR SHADE FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,257, dated June 16, 1896.

Application filed January 28, 1896. Serial No. 577,163. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OLIVER H. P. G. SPEN- OER, of Mount Carmel, in the county of WVabash and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Curtain or Shade Fixtures, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to curtain and shade fixtures; and the object of the invention is to provide a fixture which will consist of two separable brackets, one adapted for supporting the shade-roller and the other for supporting a curtain-pole or the equivalent thereof and a further object of the invention is to provide a means whereby the bracket for the curtain-pole may be placed in such posi-- tion over the bracket adapted for the shaderoller that the curtain will naturally fall outside of the shade-roller and will therefore not interfere with the shade.

Another object of the invention is to construct a combined curtain and shade fixture in a simple, durable, and economic manner,

vide for the adjustability of the fixtures, so'

that a shade or a curtain-pole, whether of greater or of less length than the width of the window, may be readily utilized without cutting or building up the shade-roller or the curtain-pole.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures;

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a window-frame, illustrating the application of the improved fixture thereto. Fig. 2 is an end view of one of the improved fixtures; and Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the two brackets of a fixture, illustrating the said brackets as separated one from the other.

In carrying out the invention two brackets A and B are employed for each side of the window. The lower bracket A comprises a base 10, having a web 11 extending practically from its outer face, the web being at a right angle to the base; and preferably both the upper and the lower edges of the said web are inclined in opposite directions, whereby the web is rendered more or less triangular, and the base is provided with openings 12 for the reception of screws or other fastening devices.

At opposite sides of the upper portion of the web 11 preferably dovetail-shaped slideways 13 are formed, the said slideways having a downward and inward inclination, and being located ordinarily adjacent to the base, as shown in Fig. 4. At the apex of the web 11 a knob 14. or its equivalent is usually formed, or an arm may be substituted for the said knob; and this knob is provided with a longitudinal opening 15, extending through from side to side, while a set-screw 16 is located in the top of the knob, entering the recess 15.

The bracket A is adapted to support a fixture for the windowshade roller. The bracket B (shown in detail in Fig. 3) is adapted to carry the fixture intended to support one end of a curtain-pole. The bracket B preferably comprises an upwardly and forwardly curved body 16, having its under face 17 inclined to correspond to the inclination of the top of the web 11 of the lower bracket A, with which surface the base of the upper bracket is adapted for engagement; and at the base or lower portion of the aforesaid upper bracket two studs or tongues 18 are downwardly pro j ected,being so arranged that when the base of the bracket B is in proper position upon the top of the web of the lower bracket A the tongues 18 will enter the grooves 13 in the aforesaid web, as shown in Fig. 2.

The upper end of the body 16 of the upper bracket is preferably made to terminate in a knob 19 or its equivalent, in which an opening or recess 20 is made, extending through from side to side, and a set-screw 21 is located in the upper end of the said knob 19, entering the slot 2O in the same. I

A curtain-fixture 22, adapted to receive a trunnion of the curtain-roller 25, is preferably secured upon one end of a rod 23, and the said rod is held to slide in the opening made in the knob of the lower bracket A; and the said opening is ordinarily made rectangular or polygonal in cross-section, as is likewise the rod 23.

A hanger 24, preferably of segmental form, is secured to the end of the rod 25, and this rod is made to enter the opening in the upper end of the upper bracket B, the fixtures being adjacent to the outer face of each of the brackets.

The rods of the fixtures are held in the proper position in the brackets by the setserews 16 and 21, so that after the brackets are placed in position the rods may be shifted inward or outward according as the length of the eurtain-pole or the shade-roller may demand. The shade 26 drops down from the roller in the usual manner, and the curtain 28 is secured to the curtain-pole by rings or any other desired way, and drops from the pole 27 against the inner surface of the shade or curtain on the shade -roller, and hangs some distance from the shade, as shown in Fig. 2.

Only the lower brackets A need be secured to the window-fra1ne, and consequently the frame will not be laeerated or marred by the insertion of numerous fastening devices, and

The combination, with a bracket adapted for attach ment to a window-frame, the bracket having slideways formed in its sides and a socket at one of its ends, and an upperbracket having tongues adapted to enter the slides in the first or lowerbracket, the upper bracket being provided with a socket adapted to extend over and beyond the socket of the lower bracket, of a slide having movement in the socket of the lower bracket, and provided with a shade rol1erfixture, a second slide having movement in the socket of the upper bracket, and provided with a fixture adapted for the support of a curtain-pole, and locking devices carried by the brackets and engaging with their slides, substantially as shown and for the purpose specified.

OLIVER II. P. G. SPENCER.

lVitnesses:

GEORGE P. RAMsEY, LYMAN LEEDS. 

